Coffee and tea buying and drinking habits in five Australian cities
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The chart below shows the results of a survey about people’s coffee and tea buying and drinking habits in five Australian cities.
Summaries the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
Intro: The bar chart illustrates information from a survey on the coffee and tea purchasing and consumption habits of people in several cities in Australia.
Overall Statement: Overall, with the exception of people surveyed in Adelaide by a narrow margin, most people went to a café for tea or coffee in the last month, and in all five cities people preferred to buy instant coffee over fresh coffee.
P1: In greater detail, there is a pattern in four out of five cities where the people surveyed expressed a preference for buying instant coffee over fresh coffee, and more people visited a café compared to either of the aspects focusing on purchasing. As mentioned previously, the exception to this is those people in Adelaide, who bought instant coffee more than they expressed a preference to visit cafes at 50% and just below 50% respectively.
P2: In all cases, buying fresh coffee was the least preferred option though the extent of this varied from location to location with just under 35% of people in Brisbane and Adelaide expressing such a preference, and up to 45% of those asked in Sydney expressing a similar preference.